Phillips area fishing report for Jan. 6, 2014

9:33 PM,
Jan. 6, 2014

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Written by

John Carlson

Last week I took my youngest son out on the ice, three-year-old Don had a blast as I got him on a bite of smaller crappie and bluegills. It didn't matter to Don that most of the fish were small and he had just as much fun watching them swim back down the hole as he had reeling the fish in.

Most of the crappie on this day came on dead sticks using minnows as bait. A dead stick is simply a limber ice rod that is set up with no bobber or strike indicator, the rod is placed in a rod holder or across the top of a bucket and when the fish hits it bends the rod down to show a strike.